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Part of the University Library Special Collections at UNC-Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Collection documents North Carolina’s history, literature, and culture by collecting written works, photographs, and artifacts.
The North Carolina Collection is a partner in our North Carolina History digital textbook project and has contributed both primary and secondary sources.
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- This illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. The caption reads, "The effects of the proclamation -- Freed negroes coming into our lines at Newbern, North Carolina."
- Format: image/illustration
- 1853 map of North Carolina
- Map titled "A new map of Nth. Carolina: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage & steam boat routes." Shows North Carolina as it existed c. 1850.
- Format: image/map
- Alexander Manly
- Format: image/photograph
- Arthur Dobbs
- Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765) was royal governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1764.
- Format: image/painting
- Battle of Roanoke Island
- Format: image/illustration
- Bechtler gold dollar coin (obverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Bechtler gold dollar coin (reverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Benjamin Hedrick
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 7.6
- Letter from UNC professor Benjamin Hedrick to the Raleigh North Carolina Standard in 1856 justifying his support of the Republican candidate for President. Hedrick was attacked for his views and would be fired by the university.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- The Biltmore Forest School
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.8
- The pioneering Biltmore Forest School emerged from George Vanderbilt's desire for scientific management of the forests around Biltmore Estate.
- Format: article
- Blackbeard the pirate
- This illustration of Blackbeard is from Charles Johnson's book A General History of the Pyrates. Aside from this work, no other record of Charles Johnson exists. Many believe the book was actually written by Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson...
- Format: image/illustration
- Blockade of Wilmington
- Format: image/illustration
- The Burnside Expedition
- Caption reads "The Burnside Expedition -- arrival of the naval and military expedition to North Carolina, under Commodore Goldsborough and General Burnside, at Hatteras Inlet, N.C., Jan. 17, 1862."
- Format: image/illustration
- Burnside Expedition illustration
- Format: image/illustration
- A call for independence
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.9
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence.
- Format: article
- Col. James H. Young
- Format: image/photograph
- Counterfeit Bechtler coin (obverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- Counterfeit Bechtler coin (reverse)
- Format: image/photograph
- The Democrats appeal to voters
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.2
- Address from the North Carolina state Democratic Party chairman in the Raleigh News and Observer before the 1898 election, appealing to white voters to "redeem the state." Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.7
- Dorothea Dix, a reformer from New England, came to North Carolina in the 1840s to campaign for a state mental hospital that would provide humane care to the mentally ill. Her efforts resulted in the construction of Dix Hill Asylum (now called Dorothea Dix Hospital) which opened in 1856.
- Format: article
- Francis Silver's confession
- Newspaper article in the Lenoir Topic, March 24, 1886. The clipping reads: We publish, by request, the following confession of Francis Silvers, who was hanged in this place [Morganton] on the 12th of July, 1833, for the murder of her...
- Format: image/newspaper
